In Vitro Anticancer Activity and Oxidative Stress Biomarkers Status Determined by (L.) F.H. Wigg. Dry Extracts

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Journal Antioxidants (Basel)

Date 2021 Aug 6

PMID 34356377

Citations 17

Authors

Violeta Popovici

Laura Bucur

Gabriela Vochita

Daniela Gherghel

Cosmin Teodor Mihai

Dan Rambu

Suzana Ioana Calcan

Teodor Costache

Iulia Elena Cucolea

Elena Matei

Florin Ciprian Badea

Aureliana Caraiane

Victoria Badea

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Abstract

Lichens represent an important resource for common traditional medicines due to their numerous metabolites that can exert diverse pharmacological activities including anticancer effects. To find new anticancer compounds with fewer side effects and low tumor resistance, a bioprospective study of (L.) F.H. Wigg. (), a lichen from the Călimani Mountains (Suceava county, Romania) was performed. The aim of this research was to investigate the anticancer potential, morphologic changes, wound healing property, clonogenesis, and oxidative stress biomarker status of four extracts of in different solvents (methanol, ethanol, acetone, and ethyl acetate), and also of usnic acid (UA) as a positive control on the CAL-27 (ATCC CRL-2095™) oral squamous carcinoma (OSCC) cell line and V79 (ATCC CCL-93™) lung fibroblasts as normal cells. Using the MTT assay and according to IC values, it was found that the most potent anticancer property was displayed by acetone and ethyl acetate extracts. All extracts determined morphological modifications (losing adhesion capacity, membrane shrinkage, formation of abnormal cellular wrinkles, and vacuolization) with higher intensity in tumor cells than in normal ones. The most intense anti-migration effect was established in the acetone extract treatment. The clonogenic assay showed that some extracts decreased the ability of cancer cells to form colonies compared to untreated cells, suggesting a potential anti-tumorigenic property of the tested extracts. Therefore, all the extracts manifest anticancer activity of different intensity, based, at least partially, on an imbalance in antioxidant defense mechanisms, causing oxidative stress.

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